Towson

Cliff Gillespie is as enthusiastic about the prospect of beginning his fifth decade with the Towsontowne Recreation Council girls basketball program as he was in his first year with the organization in 1975.

Baltimore County Sports

Nicole Sharpe had the kind of dominant performance many thought she was capable of in leading Dulaney to a 59-51 victory in overtime over Perry Hall in a girls basketball Class 4A North Region first-round playoff game Friday night.

Western Tech senior Renford Richards scored the last basket on a thunderous baseline dunk in the Wolverines’ 62-37 blowout win over visiting Loch Raven in the first game of the Class 2A North Region playoffs, but it resonated the most with the fans and coach Mike Slepesky.

In 1983, Dulaney High School distance runner Brian Russo set the school record in the 3,200 meters in a time of 9:17 in an outdoor track meet. Thirty-two years later, Dulaney coach Chad Boyle thinks Lions junior Eric Walz can break the record this spring.

Lutherville/Timonium

Philip D. Snodgrass, who was an assistant general counsel at the National Federation of Federal Employees and a 2005 graduate of Dulaney High School, was killed Monday in downtown Washington when he was hit by a speeding motorist.

Long pressured by animal advocates to make changes at Baltimore County's animal shelter, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said Thursday he's adding more employees, expanding low-cost spaying and neutering services and piloting a program for neutering feral cats.

A report commissioned by the Baltimore County Volunteer Firemen's Association that recommends closing three of its member stations and merging several others has triggered a backlash from volunteers who vow a fight to keep their station doors open.

Cockeysville/Hunt Valley

Paul C. Hagan, a veteran Baltimore advertising executive who brought his creative genius to such legendary Maryland-based companies as the old National Brewing Co., Martin Marietta, Marriott Hotels and McCormick Spices, died Feb. 15 of a massive heart attack at his Mays Chapel home. He was 83.

There have been a couple of changes lately at the old Vito's Cafe, a sterling Italian restaurant in a shopping center on York Road in Cockeysville. Last summer, the family-owned establishment, which had been a BYOB, got a license to serve wine, beer and liquor. And more recently, the...

The premise that motorists are not allowed to drive fast enough on some of Maryland's highways is the apparent rationale behind a bill that passed 39-7 last week in the state Senate. The bill would raise the state's top speed limit from 65 to 70 miles per hour. The bill now goes to the House of...

One consequence of Maryland now having a Republican governor, Larry Hogan, is that a topic once confined to the political closet is now out in the open and subject to discussion — gerrymandering. This is a healthy development in the state's politics.

White Marsh

Chris Nusbaum of Taneytown said that he and other blind students don't always readily take to learning Braille. His first few years with the touch-sensitive writing system meant being pulled from regular classes at Running Meade Elementary School to practice. No fun, he said.

A massive construction project to widen the southwest section of the Beltway is intended to ease congestion for drivers, but those who live nearby say it's coming at the cost of more noise and disruption for their neighborhoods.

Maryland State Police arrested a motorist who fled the scene of a hit-and-run accident on Interstate 95 in Harford County Thursday night only to be apprehended while driving through traffic stalled by emergency road repair, authorities said.

The Inner Harbor's just-opened Shake Shack outpost is garnering big headlines but it's not the only new burger joint in town. On the northern edge of the city, the talk is all about the independently owned restaurant Clark Burger.